Responding to lackluster sales of online movies, Apple CEO Steve Jobs on Tuesday announced movie rentals through its iTunes store. Apple cut deals with every major studio, including 20th Century Fox, Paramount, Sony, MGM and NBC Universal.

Netflix kicked off a potentially important week for the fast-growing Internet video business on Monday with a policy change that encourages subscribers to watch movies and TV shows streamed from its site to their PCs.

It's back to the Mac this week. During a record-setting 2007, Apple (AAPL) rewrote its history with the success of the iPhone and continuing strong sales of the iPod line. This week, the company is expected to turn the focus to its roots: computers.

The distinction between flash memory and hard disk drives are fading rapidly as the two storage mediums encroach one another's territory -- including marked advances announced at the International Consumer Electronics Show Monday.

Monday-Thursday: More than 140,000 people are expected to converge on Las Vegas for the Consumer Electronics Show, one of the world's largest gatherings of electronics makers. Attendees can expect to see huge televisions, theater systems for the home and car, cellphones and really long cab lines. (Stories.)

DVD-by-mail service Netflix Inc. will begin delivering movies and other programming directly to televisions later this year through a set-top box that will pipe entertainment over a high-speed Internet connection.

Japan already has the funkiest cellphones in the world: More than their U.S. counterparts, Japanese consumers use mobile phones to watch TV, pay bills, order concert tickets, read manga (comics) and summon help from global-positioning satellites to figure out where they are. But market analysis suggests there's still a niche in Japan for Apple's iPhone.